Freddy is bummed out because no one's afraid of him anymore on Elm Street so he can't kill children in their nightmares so he resurrects Jason Voorhees to go ramp up the fear level so he can draw power from it so he can return. So. Lotta "So" in this movie. Jason kills somebody which reintroduces fear to some alleged teenagers who start to fall asleep afraid (?) so Freddy can now invade their dreams and at first just kinda scares 'em until Jason has drummed up enough fear for him to finally be ready to kill someone. But then Jason kills them first. So Now Freddy's pissed.
At least that was what was going on when I gave up on this film.
What an unbelievable piece of **** this movie is.
Look at the quality of the films I have watched thus far this month. And this is the one I simply could not get through. That's how bad it is. Ghoulies was totally doable, this movie stinks on ice.
I saw this in the theater with the woman who would become my wife and then ex-wife and honestly if this is the movie I took her to, no wonder she never trusted me. I remember that I thought it survived being a complete ****-show back then but only by a hair and that I probably should never re-visit it. I was right. On the latter.
This movie sucks in so many ways it almost feels silly naming them. But then again, it also feels like a failure not to call it all out. I will say that there is a kernel of an idea here, at least an idea for how to get these two characters on screen and in conflict. But beyond that kernel it all goes so wrong.
The script is bad, the acting's terrible. I almost feel like those two things just have to be given with this movie so we can get on to the real disappointments.
The studio spent $30M on this movie. Thirty million dollars, in 2003 dollars mind you, and this whole movie looks like DTV. And I don't just mean the CGI that makes you, not far into this movie at all, question whether you can actually even watch this. Before it somehow gets worse. Why is there this much (2003-era) CGI in a horror movie?! This is not $30M worth of FX. But that's almost just a symptom of how low-brow the entire production is. I mean the production is poor. No, it's abysmal. This whole movie looks and feels like an episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Except every episode of Buffy was better than this film. It may be 2003 but this looks like a lesser-budget movie from 1993. Like, The Craft, made on half the budget in 1996 actually looks, sounds, and feels much better than this turd.
And just to be clear, this is bad even for a Jason or Freddy movie. I would absolutely, without question, prefer to watch Jason Goes To Hell over this movie 10 out of 10 times.
Anyway, I couldn't finish it. I made it about half way and felt like I should have quit sooner and also couldn't imagine how they were gonna milk another 45 or so minutes out of it.
No one should ever watch this movie under any circumstances. Everything you've seen is better.
Last edited by Wooley; 08-06-21 at 04:38 PM.